COLLEGE FOOTBALL

EXAMINER NEWS SERVICES

Published 4:00 am, Friday, November 24, 1995

ANN ARBOR, Mich. - Ohio State flanker Terry Glenn is listed as a history major. That means he should learn from the past. But has he?

Glenn and the No. 2 Buckeyes (11-0, 7-0 Big Ten) are heavily favored against No. 18 Michigan (8-3, 4-3) in their annual season-ender Saturday. Yet the fear in Columbus is that Glenn's mouth may have ignited a spark under the Wolverines.

The same thing happened last year, only in reverse, when Michigan captain Walter Smith angered the Buckeyes. Smith said some things about Ohio State coach John Cooper. The Buckeyes thought he was disrespectful.

Michigan had upset a heavily favored Ohio State team, 28-0, in 1993. The Buckeyes were 9-0-1 and ranked No. 5 going into that game. Their defeat enabled Wisconsin to go to the Rose Bowl.

"We want to get Cooper fired," Smith told a room full of reporters a year ago, on the Monday that starts the annual buildup to the biggest game of the season for the two schools. "That's what I want to do. We want to keep on beating them and beating them until he's not there."

The Buckeyes responded by walloping Michigan, 22-6, in Columbus.

This year, Glenn blasted away at Michigan.

"I'll guarantee we're going to the Rose Bowl," the Buckeyesaid.

He stopped short of promising a victory over Michigan. But Ohio State can't go to the Rose Bowl without one. If the Buckeyes tie or lose, Northwestern will go to Pasadena.

"I think that year we went up there and lost 28-0, a lot of people put Michigan up there on that pedestal, that we really couldn't beat Michigan," Glenn said. "I think the attitude on this team is, we can beat Michigan. Michigan's nobody."

In another key game Saturday, third-ranked Florida (10-0) hosts No. 6 Florida State (9-1) in a game likely to determine top-ranked Nebraska's opponent in the Fiesta Bowl.

With the victory, Texas (9-1-1, 6-0 Southwest Conference) will play Texas A&M next week with the chance to win the league title outright for the first time since 1990 and gain a berth in either the Orange or Sugar bowls.&lt;